Grandmother’s vacation leads to Toronto becoming pariah

A SPURT of coughing or sneezing in an hotel lobby or lift may have brought a Toronto grandmother in contact with SARS.

The 78-year-old, Kwan Sui-Chu, was booked into Hong Kong’s Metropole Hotel two months ago for a family holiday. She stayed on the ninth floor.

In the same hotel, was Professor Liu Jian Lun who, at the time, was treating patients with an unidentified, pneumonia-like illness in China’s Guangdong province.